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CARBON HOLDER FOR BLANK BOOKS.

No; 53 ,472. Patented Mar. 2 1895.

INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS A. LIPMAN, OF NEW YORK, Y.

CARBON-HOLDER FQR BLANK-BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of. Letters Patent No. 536,472, dated March26, 1895.

' A lication filed October 25,1894. s rain). 526,955. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS A. LIPMAN, of New York city, in the county andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Carbon-Holder forBlank-Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

It is a common practice to use carbon sheets in connection withduplicate and triplicate blank books and particularly order books, andthese carbon sheets frequently get lost or displaced, to the greatinconvenience of the person using the book. A common practice is to holdthe carbon sheets, which are usually folded, between the leaves of thebooks, in which case they are very likely to be lost, or else to providea receptacle for the carbon sheets on the board cover of the blank book,but a great many fillers are used in connection with one pair of boardcovers, and the fillers are frequently used without the covers so thatit often happens that the carbon sheets are not with the fillers orleaves of the blank book.

The object of my invention is to obviate these difficulties and producea carbon holder which is of the greatest simplicity and cheap-v ness,which forms a part of the filler or body portion of the blank book, andwhich holds the carbon sheets securely in place, but permits the sheetsto be conveniently removed when it is desired to use them.

To these ends my invention consists of a carbon holder for blank books,the construction of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a blank book provided with my improvedcarbon holder, the book being thrown open to expose the holder andtheback of one of-the carbon sheets being broken away to expose the carbon;and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the closed book and the carbonholder forming a part thereof.

The blank book 10 may be of any usual and tough back leaf 15 which issubstantially of the same length as the other leaves of the blank book,and at its free edge or end the leaf 15 is provided with a tongue orflap 16 which is connected to the leaf by a binding or reinforcing strip17, and the carbon sheets 18 which are of the usual kind are laid fiaton the leaf 15, the tongue or flap 16 is doubled over the ends of thesheets, as shown in Fig. 1, and the body portion of the book is thendropped down upon the flap or tongue, thus binding the carbon sheets inplace. When desired, the carbon sheet 18 maybe provided with aprotecting cover 18 of paper'as seen but this is not always essential.The carbon sheets are thus securely-held and can be easily removed andused in the ordinary way when desired.

It will be noticed that the carbon sheets may be very quickly placed inthe holder or removed therefrom for use in the usual way, and it willalso be observed that the blank book and holder may be usedindependently of any covers or in connection with any suitable binding,as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A blank book having a cover and a thickened leaf atits back, said leaf being bound at one end in the book and having agreater length than the remaining leaves of the book, the opposite endof said leaf being folded over at a point corresponding with the edge ofthe book, and having its folded portion inclosed between its body andthe adjacent leaf of the book, substantially as set forth.

LEWIS A. LIPMAN.

Witnesses WM. W. DAVIS, J. H. WESTERFIELD.

